Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.
I feel like I'm pretty good at doing my own makeup. I've watched a lot of people do my makeup, so I've been able to gauge what looks good and what doesn't.
I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup, clothes, shoes and other girly things around.
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.
Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.
I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.
The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there - then I realised how much I liked it.
Models used to shave their eyebrows so they could pencil them in very thin.
When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.
I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling.
I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
I enjoy makeup and having someone who does my hair. What female wouldn't?
When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.
Many of us endure pain in the service of beauty every single day. We rip off our hair with hot wax, jam our soft skin into modern-day corsets, and burn our scalps with dyes.
Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.
This is something we're seeing more, especially with patients from outside of this country. They love body modification, they love having things done that we don't do in this country. For example, putting pubic hair on your eyelashes. What practitioner in this country would do something that ridiculous?
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
